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EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support

BACKGROUND: In Belgium, the construction of a national electronic point-of-care information service, EBMPracticeNet, was initiated in 2011 to optimize quality of care by promoting evidence-based decision-making. The collaboration of the government, health care providers, evidence-based medicine (EBM...

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Autores principales: Van de Velde, Stijn, Vander Stichele, Robert, Fauquert, Benjamin, Geens, Siegfried, Heselmans, Annemie, Ramaekers, Dirk, Kunnamo, Ilkka, Aertgeerts, Bert
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Publicado: JMIR Publications Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23842038
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2644
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author Van de Velde, Stijn
Vander Stichele, Robert
Fauquert, Benjamin
Geens, Siegfried
Heselmans, Annemie
Ramaekers, Dirk
Kunnamo, Ilkka
Aertgeerts, Bert
author_facet Van de Velde, Stijn
Vander Stichele, Robert
Fauquert, Benjamin
Geens, Siegfried
Heselmans, Annemie
Ramaekers, Dirk
Kunnamo, Ilkka
Aertgeerts, Bert
author_sort Van de Velde, Stijn
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description BACKGROUND: In Belgium, the construction of a national electronic point-of-care information service, EBMPracticeNet, was initiated in 2011 to optimize quality of care by promoting evidence-based decision-making. The collaboration of the government, health care providers, evidence-based medicine (EBM) partners, and vendors of electronic health records (EHR) is unique to this project. All Belgian health care professionals get free access to an up-to-date database of validated Belgian and nearly 1000 international guidelines, incorporated in a portal that also provides EBM information from other sources than guidelines, including computerized clinical decision support that is integrated in the EHRs. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper was to describe the development strategy, the overall content, and the management of EBMPracticeNet which may be of relevance to other health organizations creating national or regional electronic point-of-care information services. METHODS: Several candidate providers of comprehensive guideline solutions were evaluated and one database was selected. Translation of the guidelines to Dutch and French was done with translation software, post-editing by translators and medical proofreading. A strategy is determined to adapt the guideline content to the Belgian context. Acceptance of the computerized clinical decision support tool has been tested and a randomized controlled trial is planned to evaluate the effect on process and patient outcomes. RESULTS: Currently, EBMPracticeNet is in "work in progress" state. Reference is made to the results of a pilot study and to further planned research including a randomized controlled trial. CONCLUSIONS: The collaboration of government, health care providers, EBM partners, and vendors of EHRs is unique. The potential value of the project is great. The link between all the EHRs from different vendors and a national database held on a single platform that is controlled by all EBM organizations in Belgium are the strengths of EBMPracticeNet.
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spelling pubmed-37139372013-07-18 EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support Van de Velde, Stijn Vander Stichele, Robert Fauquert, Benjamin Geens, Siegfried Heselmans, Annemie Ramaekers, Dirk Kunnamo, Ilkka Aertgeerts, Bert JMIR Res Protoc Viewpoint BACKGROUND: In Belgium, the construction of a national electronic point-of-care information service, EBMPracticeNet, was initiated in 2011 to optimize quality of care by promoting evidence-based decision-making. The collaboration of the government, health care providers, evidence-based medicine (EBM) partners, and vendors of electronic health records (EHR) is unique to this project. All Belgian health care professionals get free access to an up-to-date database of validated Belgian and nearly 1000 international guidelines, incorporated in a portal that also provides EBM information from other sources than guidelines, including computerized clinical decision support that is integrated in the EHRs. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper was to describe the development strategy, the overall content, and the management of EBMPracticeNet which may be of relevance to other health organizations creating national or regional electronic point-of-care information services. METHODS: Several candidate providers of comprehensive guideline solutions were evaluated and one database was selected. Translation of the guidelines to Dutch and French was done with translation software, post-editing by translators and medical proofreading. A strategy is determined to adapt the guideline content to the Belgian context. Acceptance of the computerized clinical decision support tool has been tested and a randomized controlled trial is planned to evaluate the effect on process and patient outcomes. RESULTS: Currently, EBMPracticeNet is in "work in progress" state. Reference is made to the results of a pilot study and to further planned research including a randomized controlled trial. CONCLUSIONS: The collaboration of government, health care providers, EBM partners, and vendors of EHRs is unique. The potential value of the project is great. The link between all the EHRs from different vendors and a national database held on a single platform that is controlled by all EBM organizations in Belgium are the strengths of EBMPracticeNet. JMIR Publications Inc. 2013-07-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3713937/ /pubmed/23842038 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2644 Text en ©Stijn Van de Velde, Robert Vander Stichele, Benjamin Fauquert, Siegfried Geens, Annemie Heselmans, Dirk Ramaekers, Ilkka Kunnamo, Bert Aertgeerts. Originally published in JMIR Research Protocols (http://www.researchprotocols.org), 10.07.2013. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Research Protocols, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.researchprotocols.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
spellingShingle Viewpoint
Van de Velde, Stijn
Vander Stichele, Robert
Fauquert, Benjamin
Geens, Siegfried
Heselmans, Annemie
Ramaekers, Dirk
Kunnamo, Ilkka
Aertgeerts, Bert
EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title_full EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title_fullStr EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title_full_unstemmed EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title_short EBMPracticeNet: A Bilingual National Electronic Point-Of-Care Project for Retrieval of Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline Information and Decision Support
title_sort ebmpracticenet: a bilingual national electronic point-of-care project for retrieval of evidence-based clinical guideline information and decision support
topic Viewpoint
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23842038
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/resprot.2644
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